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Download e-book for iPad: We Are What We Drink: The Temperance Battle in Minnesota by Sabine N. Meyer

Sabine N. Meyer eschews the generalities of different temperance histories to supply a close-grained tale in regards to the connections among alcohol intake and id within the top Midwest.

Meyer examines the ever-shifting ways in which ethnicity, gender, classification, faith, and position interacted with one another throughout the lengthy temperance conflict in Minnesota. Her deconstruction of Irish and German ethnic positioning with appreciate to temperance activism presents a unprecedented interethnic historical past of the circulate. even as, she indicates how ladies engaged in temperance paintings for you to shape public identities and reforges the mostly ignored, but important hyperlink among lady temperance and suffrage activism. Relatedly, Meyer displays at the continuities and alterations among how the move functioned to build id within the heartland as opposed to the movement's extra frequently studied roles within the East. She additionally offers a nuanced portrait of the tradition conflict among a relatively reform-minded Minneapolis and dynamic anti-temperance forces in whiskey-soaked St. Paul--forces supported by way of govt, neighborhood, and enterprise associations seriously invested in conserving town wet.

This ebook explores the accidental results of compassion on the planet of immigration politics. Miriam Ticktin specializes in France and its humanitarian immigration practices to argue politics in response to care and security can lead the country to view problems with immigration and asylum via a clinical lens.

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